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Timeline Of The Near Future

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1. Triple conjunction Mars






2. December 10






3. Triple conjunction Mars






4. Triple conjunction of Mars and Saturn.






5. FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar.






6. Brood X - the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas - will emerge.






7. The Voyager program is expected to terminate. Manned mission to the Moon by China.






8. The M1 Abrams will be retired from service.






9. March 17






10. The maximum calendar year limit within the Microsoft Windows XP - Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.






11. Triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.






12. Transit of Venus on June 11.






13. On December 2 at 12-32 UTC Mars will occult Jupiter.






14. The Voyager program is expected to terminate. Manned mission to the Moon by China.






15. Brood X - the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas - will emerge.






16. Grand Trine of Uranus - Neptune - and Pluto. This last occurred in 1769 and 1770.






17. Copyright on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons expires.






18. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






19. The 17th Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. Spacecrafts New Horizons and Dawn to arrive at the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres - respectively. Alignment of Earth - Venus and Jupiter. Rugby World Cup held in England and Wales. 2015 Cricket World






20. Asteroid 2007 VK184 has a chance of 1 in 3030 of hitting Earth in this year.






21. Mercury occults Neptune.






22. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.






23. 7th millennium begins in the Hebrew calendar.






24. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






25. The Chernobyl exclusion zone becomes habitable.






26. The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (comprising Saudi Arabia - Oman - United Arab Emirates - Bahrain - Kuwait and Qatar) hope to establish monetary union in this year. FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Brazil. 34th America's C






27. On March 14 (which will be February 29 in the Julian calendar) - the difference between the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar reaches 14 days. Since 14 is divisible by 7 - this will be the first time in history since its inception that the G






28. 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Russia.






29. 99942 Apophis has a 1 in 250000 chance of hitting Earth on April 19.






30. On March 4 at 10-52 UTC - Venus will occult Uranus.






31. Solar eclipse of 7 min 29 s (very close to the theoretical maximum) - saros 139 - 'crowing' this serie. This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10000 year period - from 4000 BC to AD 6000 (eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak -






32. First expected manned mission to Mars by NASA.






33. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






34. Last year which can be represented using the File Allocation Table date format.






35. Triple conjunction Mars






36. On March 14 (which will be February 29 in the Julian calendar) - the difference between the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar reaches 14 days. Since 14 is divisible by 7 - this will be the first time in history since its inception that the G






37. Triple conjunction Mars






38. Return of Halley's Comet.






39. The planetoid 90377 Sedna reaches perihelion.






40. Transit of Venus.






41. The second full orbit of Neptune around the sun since its discovery in 1846.






42. FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar.






43. Lease held by the Pitjantjatjara people on Uluru to Australian government set to expire.






44. Solar eclipse of 7 min 29 s (very close to the theoretical maximum) - saros 139 - 'crowing' this serie. This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10000 year period - from 4000 BC to AD 6000 (eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak -






45. The Message From Earth will reach Gliese 581.






46. The Green Wall of China is expected to be completed.






47. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.






48. The Green Wall of China is expected to be completed.






49. The maximum calendar year limit within the Microsoft Windows XP - Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.






50. Long-duration lunar eclipse of approximately 106.1 minutes.